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The Maroon | V 01.90 N0.7 A Loyola Tradition Since 1923 "For a greater Loyola" www.LoyolaMaroon.com Friday, October 7, 201 1 Take Back the Night turns 20 By HANNAH lANNAZZO Contributing Writer Loyola and Tlilane will join forces with Xavier and Dillard to host the 20th annual Take Back the Night later this month. This event is held to promote awareness of sexual violence in the New Orleans community. Attendees will gather in the Horseshoe outside Marquette Hall, where speakers will share their experiences. From the Horseshoe, there will be a candlelit march to Tulane's campus. In past years, the march ended at Myra Clare Rogers Memorial Chapel on Tulane's campus, but this year, due to the growing number of attendees, the march will end at Freeman Auditorium. After the march, there will be an open microphone for people to share their experiences. The event will take place Oct. 26 from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. Beth Cook, Spanish sophomore and planning committee member, encourages people to come to show support. "People should attend Take Back the Night so that they can show that they support finding solutions to the problem of genderbased violence," she said. "Just by showing up, brining some friends and joining in on the march to Tulane, you have the opportunity to show those who are hiding and afraid of getting help that they are not alone." Students from the four universities, with support from Brooks Zitzmann, staff counselor, and Karen Reichard, director of FULL HOUSE Residential halls reach 97percent capacity By KELSI ALLENBACH Staff Writer Residential Life officials consider the nearly full residence halls as a positive sign of growth, but some students don't share their enthusiasm. This semester, Loyola's residence halls are at 97 percent capacity. The university has 1,481 total beds on campus in its four residence halls, ■ _ _ _ _ and has about I IjHjßfl 40 empty beds, fly Craig Beebe, director of Residential Life, said he doesn't think that filling residence halls to capacity will make students uncomfortable. That's why there is a capacity, he said. "People know now that Loyola's growing, that the freshman class is the second largest in history, that the residence halls are full, and that's just a positive message," he said. "It's actually difficult for a university not to have the residence halls at capacity," Half of the rooms in Biever Hall are tripled up this year, while only about a third were last year. "We have 40 more students this year in Biever Hall alone," Beebe said. Some freshmen who live in Biever said they aren't fans of the new sleeping system, which includes one bunk bed and one loft bed. "I've fallen off the beds a few times. It's not fun," said Kieran Kavanagh, music industry SOPHIA TAN/THE MAROON Students hang out in the Biever Hall lounge Oct. 5. This semester, Residential Life said that there are 40 more students in Biever Hall alone. Total capacity in the residence halls is at 97 percent. University implements strategies for retention By J. KARIN CURLEY Contributing Writer Loyola's admissions office has pursued several strategies to improve student retention rates, but questions remain on how the success of these strategies can be accurately measured. Improving retention rates was one of the main goals of Loyola 2012, the university's strategic plan. Three years into the plan, which was approved by the Board of Trustees in 2009, the Rev. Kevin Wildes SJ., university president, said it is time to start evaluating its implementation and looking to the future for the next plan. Salvadore Liberto, vice president for Office of Enrollment Management, said he believes assessment will be difficult. "There are things you know but can't prove," he said. He noted that determining the effect of certain strategies will be especially difficult because of the recession. According to data collected by the Strategic Planning Committee, the retention rate of first- to secondyear students has increased from 73 percent in 2008-2009 to 82 percent in 2010-2011. The minority student graduation rate, once higher than the national average, has dropped from 63 percent to 50 percent. Higher retention rates are a long-term process, and they are not necessarily measurable in one-year increments, Liberto said. Ultimately it will be several more years until the university can fully understand the success of the admissions office's actions. The admissions staff responded to the plan by hiring Elizabeth Rainey, a full-time director of retention and student services whose sole focus is helping firstyear students successfully transition into college life. According to Liberto, adjustment issues, such as homesickness and new social realities, are one of the main reasons for a student leaving. A lack of full emotional and psychological support from family members is also a problem for some students, he said. Rainey starts educating firstyear students on these adjustment see NIGHT, page 12 see CAPACITY, page 4 see RETENTION, page 12 See how SGA allocation stack up page 3 a—J . u- .. . j i-m f- ■ -f MMHCfI. HMUfMHHHS MM - flJjj tftaOHtlflOH ®f w m wiwwi»»w» |'~l Back tin Mglit tamitM," uIHHHMHHHHHm the ring fej

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The Maroon | V 01.90 N0.7 A Loyola Tradition Since 1923 "For a greater Loyola" www.LoyolaMaroon.com Friday, October 7, 201 1 Take Back the Night turns 20 By HANNAH lANNAZZO Contributing Writer Loyola and Tlilane will join forces with Xavier and Dillard to host the 20th annual Take Back the Night later this month. This event is held to promote awareness of sexual violence in the New Orleans community. Attendees will gather in the Horseshoe outside Marquette Hall, where speakers will share their experiences. From the Horseshoe, there will be a candlelit march to Tulane's campus. In past years, the march ended at Myra Clare Rogers Memorial Chapel on Tulane's campus, but this year, due to the growing number of attendees, the march will end at Freeman Auditorium. After the march, there will be an open microphone for people to share their experiences. The event will take place Oct. 26 from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. Beth Cook, Spanish sophomore and planning committee member, encourages people to come to show support. "People should attend Take Back the Night so that they can show that they support finding solutions to the problem of genderbased violence," she said. "Just by showing up, brining some friends and joining in on the march to Tulane, you have the opportunity to show those who are hiding and afraid of getting help that they are not alone." Students from the four universities, with support from Brooks Zitzmann, staff counselor, and Karen Reichard, director of FULL HOUSE Residential halls reach 97percent capacity By KELSI ALLENBACH Staff Writer Residential Life officials consider the nearly full residence halls as a positive sign of growth, but some students don't share their enthusiasm. This semester, Loyola's residence halls are at 97 percent capacity. The university has 1,481 total beds on campus in its four residence halls, ■ _ _ _ _ and has about I IjHjßfl 40 empty beds, fly Craig Beebe, director of Residential Life, said he doesn't think that filling residence halls to capacity will make students uncomfortable. That's why there is a capacity, he said. "People know now that Loyola's growing, that the freshman class is the second largest in history, that the residence halls are full, and that's just a positive message," he said. "It's actually difficult for a university not to have the residence halls at capacity," Half of the rooms in Biever Hall are tripled up this year, while only about a third were last year. "We have 40 more students this year in Biever Hall alone," Beebe said. Some freshmen who live in Biever said they aren't fans of the new sleeping system, which includes one bunk bed and one loft bed. "I've fallen off the beds a few times. It's not fun," said Kieran Kavanagh, music industry SOPHIA TAN/THE MAROON Students hang out in the Biever Hall lounge Oct. 5. This semester, Residential Life said that there are 40 more students in Biever Hall alone. Total capacity in the residence halls is at 97 percent. University implements strategies for retention By J. KARIN CURLEY Contributing Writer Loyola's admissions office has pursued several strategies to improve student retention rates, but questions remain on how the success of these strategies can be accurately measured. Improving retention rates was one of the main goals of Loyola 2012, the university's strategic plan. Three years into the plan, which was approved by the Board of Trustees in 2009, the Rev. Kevin Wildes SJ., university president, said it is time to start evaluating its implementation and looking to the future for the next plan. Salvadore Liberto, vice president for Office of Enrollment Management, said he believes assessment will be difficult. "There are things you know but can't prove," he said. He noted that determining the effect of certain strategies will be especially difficult because of the recession. According to data collected by the Strategic Planning Committee, the retention rate of first- to secondyear students has increased from 73 percent in 2008-2009 to 82 percent in 2010-2011. The minority student graduation rate, once higher than the national average, has dropped from 63 percent to 50 percent. Higher retention rates are a long-term process, and they are not necessarily measurable in one-year increments, Liberto said. Ultimately it will be several more years until the university can fully understand the success of the admissions office's actions. The admissions staff responded to the plan by hiring Elizabeth Rainey, a full-time director of retention and student services whose sole focus is helping firstyear students successfully transition into college life. According to Liberto, adjustment issues, such as homesickness and new social realities, are one of the main reasons for a student leaving. A lack of full emotional and psychological support from family members is also a problem for some students, he said. Rainey starts educating firstyear students on these adjustment see NIGHT, page 12 see CAPACITY, page 4 see RETENTION, page 12 See how SGA allocation stack up page 3 a—J . u- .. . j i-m f- ■ -f MMHCfI. HMUfMHHHS MM - flJjj tftaOHtlflOH ®f w m wiwwi»»w» |'~l Back tin Mglit tamitM," uIHHHMHHHHHm the ring fej